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Capacitate Branch Managers to Identify and Develop Micro-Entrepreneur Members

Centre for Self-help Development (CSD) organized two day of Virtual training on "Promotion and Development of Micro-entrepreneurship among microfinance Members" on November 24-25, 2020 (Mangsir 9-10, 2077) aiming at the branch managers and senior officers.
It was attended by 25 participants. The objective of the training was to build up the knowledge and skill of the participants to upgrade the microfinance members to micro entrepreneur level from the basic livelihood.

The participating managers were oriented on how to identify and develop members as entrepreneurs in their organization and also acquaint them with the methods of preparing and developing business plan and analyze the need of the required credit to foster/establish new enterprise. During the closing session of the training, the chairman of CSD Mr. Shankar Man Shrestha said, "The objective of microfinance is to uplift the poor and deprived people and make them self employed entrepreneur. The branch managers should ensure that each member is developed as an entrepreneur. You have to train your field staff how to identify the enterpenuareship potential of each member and motivate them to undertake enterprise that generates full employment to the family. The staff should visit the household of each member and identify her potential and need and give required counseling. Currently they have been confined to just loan disbursement and collection.” He further said, “If microfinance does not transform their economic status it is of no use.”

On the occasion, the participants shared their experiences and said, "The knowledge gained from the training will really help to work in the coming days' in accordance with the spirit of microfinance." In the two days training, they learned about the process of identification of appropriate enterprise and preparation of business plan to assess the microfinancing clients. They have done self-evaluation exercises, group discussions as well as learned to monitor and supervise enterprises of their member.

Likewise in the ending session Executive Chief of the CSD Mr. Bechan Giri said that the virtual training was organized to develop the knowledge and capacity of the branch managers and senior-level field staffs for micro-entrepreneurship development. Mr. Giri said that the center will establish continuous communication to exchange the learning among all the participants in the coming days.

The training was facilitated by Mr. Gokul Pyakurel a well known micro entrepreneurship trainer who worked as senior entrepreneurship development program coordinator in UNDP and microfinance expert in the Decentralized Local Good Governance Cooperation Program. Director of CSD Mr. Satish Shrestha and training Officer Ms. Renu Prajapati extended required support to make the training a success.

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